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MOUNT ST THOMAS PUBLIC SCHOOL

 Revised  June, 2002

PERFORMANCES IN SCHOOLS POLICY

RATIONALE:

Mount St Thomas School is committed to developing children’s appreciation and enjoyment of the arts in all its forms as part of  their education. Observation of, and participation in, the performing arts, play significant and essential educational roles and assist all students to develop aesthetic, cognitive, social and physical skills.  The experience of live performances in our school is also valuable as it provides students with opportunities to develop standards of critical awareness and can stimulate the child’s ideas for participation and experimentation in the performing arts.

Performances of high quality are essential if students are to respond positively to these experiences.   With this is mind, quality performances are carefully selected to also ensure relevance to and support of our school’s programs and meet specific curriculum needs.  To this end, the wide range of performances offered includes drama, dance, mime, music, puppetry and other educational presentations related to the many K.L.A’s of  the curriculum.

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OUTCOMES;

• The school will provide students with a wide range of high quality performing arts experiences.

• The performances presented will develop our students:

1. perception, understanding, communication and creativity.

2. personal standards of judgment.

3. social awareness.

4. life long appreciation and enjoyment of  the arts.

• The performances presented will broaden the children’s individual experiences beyond the teaching resources of  the school.

• The students will display gender motivation in the participation of  the performing arts.

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GUIDELINES:

• Performances are to be offered during the school year excluding Dance Festival and Musica Viva.

• Performances should be varied, support different K.L.A’s and presented in a variety of venues.

• All children should be encouraged to attend performances as they supplement and support the school’s       educational programs.

• No child should be excluded from a performance as a result of family hardship.

• Teachers should be present during the performance and where possible actively participate with the audience.

• The performance, its introduction and follow-up activities should be an integral part of the school’s             curriculum.

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IMPLEMENTATION:

• At the end of each year, the committee shortlists 5-6 authorised performances.

• Criteria for selection of those shortlisted included:

1. support of particular K.L.A initiatives for the following year

2. variety of performance and venue from previous years eg single presentation,  workshops, community based projects

3. cost of performances.

• Staff discusses collaboratively and vote individually for their preferred three performances.

• Dates are set for the selected performances ensuring sufficient time between each one (usually one per term 1,2,3).

• Committee members book performances and are responsible for distributing any teachers’ background notes or pupil activity sheets, newsletter, publicity, permission notes and organisation of school venue and non-attending pupils.

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